> >> Exploits don't work for HP/UX as they do for
> "normal" Linuxes/Unixes. This is because HP/UX (as far as I
> know) mainly works on SPARC CPU's, thus having Big Endian
> instructions which is different from standard x86 - or am I
> wrong?

forgive me if I'm wrong but is't hp ux suppose to run on alpha architecture or something like that? i thought sparc was mainly for solaris/opensolaris.

also,I get how the shellcodes and all that has to be different but i still fail to understand how a buffer overflow would work on one architecture and fail on another.i am always baffled when i hear a certain vuln/exploit is only on x86 or x86_64. I'm sure there is an explanation to this i just don't know it yet so please enlighten me on the this subject.

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